The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Cricket

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Gideon Haigh's previous collections of cricket writings, Game for Anything (978 1 84513 0787) and Silent Revolutions (978 1 84513 226 2), both published by Aurum, have concentrated primarily on historical subjects great cricketers of the past, cricketing controversies, forgotten heroes. In this new book he concentrates on the modern game cricket for the twenty-first century. Above all, of course, it is a game, at least at Test level, dominated by the green-and-gold wearing Australians, so Haigh includes a number of pieces on the great Australian Cricketers of our day like Shame Warne, Glen M.;Cover; Title page; Contents; INTRODUCTION The (Green and) Gold Standard; THE BAGGY GREEN MACHINE; MARK TAYLOR Safe Hands; STEVE AND MARK WAUGH A Lovely Waugh; STEVE WAUGH Comfort Stop; WAUGH'S FAREWELL Over and Out; RICKY PONTING Heir Today; RICKY PONTING Little Big Man; ADAM GILCHRIST Rocket Man; ADAM GILCHRIST The Exclamation Mark; DAMIEN MARTYN The Step-Up; DARREN LEHMANN Afternoon Light; JO ANGEL Look Homeward; CRICKET BOOKS OF 2004 Our Heroes and Others; THE WARNE AGE; SHANE WARNE The Young Veteran; SHANE WARNE The Comeback Kid; WARNE'S RETURN He's Back. Cover Title page Contents INTRODUCTION The (Green and) Gold Standard THE BAGGY GREEN MACHINE MARK TAYLOR Safe Hands STEVE AND MARK WAUGH A Lovely Waugh STEVE WAUGH Comfort Stop WAUGH'S FAREWELL Over and Out RICKY PONTING Heir Today RICKY PONTING Little Big Man ADAM GILCHRIST Rocket Man ADAM GILCHRIST The Exclamation Mark DAMIEN MARTYN The Step-Up DARREN LEHMANN Afternoon Light JO ANGEL Look Homeward CRICKET BOOKS OF 2004 Our Heroes and Others THE WARNE AGE SHANE WARNE The Young Veteran SHANE WARNE The Comeback Kid WARNE'S RETURN He's Back. WARNE AND MURALI Long Playing RecordsSHANE WARNE Bad Boy, Bad Book SHANE WARNE Genius? A CLUTCH OF CHARACTERS BELINDA CLARK The Little Mistress DANIEL VETTORI Sebastian Flight MATTHEW MAYNARD Lost and Found BRIAN LARA First among Unequals BILLY BOWDEN Billy the Kidder DARRELL HAIR The Lightning Rod A PACKET OF MATCHES PERTH 1997 Nasty, Brutish and Short THE 1997 ASHES The View from Couch Central WORLD CUP 1999 One-Day Best DAY 5 THE OVAL 2001 As Good as It Gets MELBOURNE 2001 Luck's a Fortune MELBOURNE 2004 Boxing Day Massacre SUPER SERIES GAME 1 Super Snooze. SUPER SERIES Back to the FutureSUPER TEST Defeat without Honour SOUTH AFRICA IN AUSTRALIA 2005-06 Payback Time WINNING AND LOSING THE WEST INDIES 2000 Decline and Fall THE RETURN OF THE ALL-ROUNDER Queue Jumpers TEST CRICKET 125 Not Out? AUSTRALIA IN 2004 Success and its Discontents INJURIES Please Try Harder JAQUES V KATICH Lightweight Clash CHAMPIONS TROPHY 2006 According to Taste WORLD CUP 2007 Runneth Over WORLD CUP 2007 The Dying Game MALCOLM SPEED The Case for the Defence MANAGEMENT AND MISMANAGEMENT JAMES SUTHERLAND Taking Charge MATCH-FIXING Fallen Idols. MATCH-FIXING The Fix is InMATCH-FIXING Who Fixes the Fixers? MATCH-FIXING So Far, So Bad MATCH-FIXING Caught THE LAWS OF CRICKET Spirited Debate THE AKHTAR CASE Thrown to the Wolves CROWDS Patriot Games LORD'S Cricket's Fawlty Towers COACHES Moores: The Pity ZIMBABWE Out of Africa TWENTY20 2005 The Shape of Things to Come TWENTY20 2006 The Excitement Machine TWENTY20 2007 The Balloon Goes Up About the Author Copyright page.